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• Venmo Is Actually A Social Network, Sort Of

  24-09-2024 21:03 via msn.com
  Unless a user opts out, every profile is visible to the public and every transaction is shown in the feeds of a user’s friends. So now — unlike video-focused TikTok and (increasingly) Instagram, or Facebook, dishing out political disinformation and “Shrimp Jesus” — Venmo feeds show what one’s friends are up to. – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• Longtime Houston Ballet Executive Director Steps Down

  24-09-2024 20:14 via houstonpress.com
  
  James Nelson who began his career as a dancer and went on to to serve in a succession of roles with Houston Ballet: company manager, general manager and then chief executive in February 2012, taking over from C.C. Conner. – Houston Press
  
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• Does “The Show Must Go On” Create Unhealthy Workplaces?

  24-09-2024 20:14 via thestage.co.uk
  Theatre workers across the sector have now described to The Stage how they feel pressure to “power through” all but the most extreme health conditions due to financial insecurity and a “strict” culture. – The Stage
  
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• Study: Why Public Media Needs More Stable Funding

  24-09-2024 19:44 via insideradio.com
  The CSRL study says most local NPR stations lack the resources to systematically gather and report on local news, and in turn, spend too much of its limited resources covering issues that the wealthy care about. – Inside Radio
  
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• Learning To Appreciate Neurodivergent Reaction To Art

  24-09-2024 19:44 via wsj.com
  “Listening to you also reminded me of my own adult son, who is autistic. When Ezra was a child, my wife and I sometimes hesitated to bring him along to concerts or movies for fear he might do or say the wrong thing.” – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Critic Frederic Jameson, 90

  24-09-2024 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  For decades, Mr. Jameson’s voluminous work — more than 30 books and edited collections as well as reams of journal articles — has been required reading for graduate students (and some precocious undergraduates), not just in literature but also in film studies, architecture and history. – The New York Times
  
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• “La Haine,” Revelatory Film About Paris’s Suburban Slums, Is Now A Stage Musical

  24-09-2024 19:02 via apnews.com
  
  Matthieu Kassovitz’s 1995 prize-winner is still considered the reference film about the crisis in France’s suburban housing projects. After almost 30 years, Kassovitz and stage director Serge Denoncourt have turned it into a hip-hop musical — with the new subtitle “So Far, Nothing Has Changed.” – AP
  
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• Creative People Prioritize Information Differently Than Others

  24-09-2024 18:44 via psyche.co
  
  My work explores the ways in which creative individuals prioritise information differently to their less creative counterparts. In one of our studies, my research collaborators and I used a classic task to see how the brain responds to another type of high priority information: surprising information. – Psyche
  
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• Saving The Day: NYCBallet Dancer Subs In During Performance With Four Minutes Notice

  24-09-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  In dancer shorthand, this is what’s known as being thrown on. It’s scary sounding, isn’t it? Phelan, on Instagram, wrote that she was given about four minutes’ notice. – The New York Times
  
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• How Our Culture Is Being Eroded

  24-09-2024 18:15 via ian-leslie.com
  
  Olivier Roy argues that culture in the sense we have understood it is being inexorably eroded. It’s not, as some of his countrymen believe, that one culture is being replaced by another – say, Christianity by Islam. It’s that all culture is being hollowed out by technology, data, globalisation, bureaucracy, and consumerist individualism. – Ian Leslie
  
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• Visitorship At French Heritage Sites Is Back To Pre-COVID Levels

  24-09-2024 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  According to the statistics department at the country’s Ministry of Culture, the total attendance figure for more than 1,450 museums and 46,000 monuments is, at 46.8 million visitors, up 13% from 2022 and 7% from 2019. – ARTnews
  
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• An Alarming Rise In Retractions Of Research Papers

  24-09-2024 17:32 via theconversation.com
  
  The publication of research papers drives university rankings and career progression, yet the relentless pressure to publish has contributed to an increase in fraudulent data. Unless this changes, the entire research landscape may shift toward a less rigorous standard, hindering vital progress in fields such as medicine, technology and climate science. – The Conversation
  
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• Benny Golson, Master Jazz Saxophonist And Composer, Has Died At 95

  24-09-2024 17:05 via wrti.org
  
  “Golson played an integral role in the transition from bebop to hard bop through his short but vital tenure with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and with his own influential Jazztet. … Few jazz musicians can claim as many bona fide standards to their credit.” – WRTI (Philadelphia)
  
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• Stone-Eating Lichens Are Gradually Gobbling Up Ancient Persepolis

  24-09-2024 16:31 via msn.com
  The ruins of the ancient Persian capital, built in the 6th century BCE, are an important locus of Iranian national pride and a major tourist attraction. Now lichens, algae-fungus hybrids, infest the stone monuments, dissolving minerals and penetrating surfaces by 1.5 cm, slowly breaking the ruins down. – AFP (MSN)
  
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• Firings At Dallas Black Dance Theatre: A Generational Culture Clash?

  24-09-2024 16:03 via keranews.org
  
  When management fired the entire main company in August, the dancers said it was because they tried to unionize; management said that a social media video the dancers made violated longstanding rules covering DBDT members’ behavior. The dancers respond that those rules are rigid and severely outdated. – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• About 40% Of Jobs In U.S. Book Publishing Have Disappeared Since 1997

  24-09-2024 15:36 via publishersweekly.com
  Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that employment in the industry peaked in 1997 at 91,100 jobs; as late as 2008 there were 84,600. By 2021, that figure was down to 51,161, though an additional 3,721 jobs were added in the next two years. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• ‘I got offered a gram of cocaine for a painting’: is Slawn art’s latest enfant terrible?

  24-09-2024 15:32
  
  His critics call him a talentless chancer, but the 23-year-old street artist from Lagos has found success through brand collaborations, Saatchi backing – and manifesting his goal of becoming the ‘biggest artist in the world’Slawn turns up to our interview in his London studio two hours late and holding his two-week-old son under his arm like a rugby ball. Dressed in a black T-shirt, shorts and work boots, the 23-year-old Nigerian (real name Olaolu Akeredolu-Ale) looks like a we
  
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• At American Ballet Companies, Artistic Leadership Remains Largely Male

  24-09-2024 15:02 via dancedataproject.com
  
  Dance Data Project’s 2024 survey of the 150 largest ballet and classically-based companies in the U.S. shows little change in the gender balance among artistic directors, still roughly 60% male and 40% female. And more women were replaced by men last year than vice versa. – Dance Data Project
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Organizations Don’t Support Artists; They Employ Them

  24-09-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  Artists matter more than any producing organization.
  They’ll praise you to the hilt, but to producers, artists are just another cog in the machine (Photo: CC 2.0 by barbie.harris37on flickr).
  In recent articles, as we’ve discussed the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations have, in the main, chosen to be irrelevant to their charter, their communities, and their owners (the states in which they incorporated), several performing artists have written in with some terror in their sub
  
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• A Nine-Panel, 483-Year-Old Masterpiece Has Been Reassembled In Venice

  24-09-2024 14:34 via news.artnet.com
  
  But not quite fully reassembled. Giorgio Vasari’s 1541 portrayal of the Five Virtues, painted for the ceiling of a Venetian palazzo, was broken up and sold off in the mid-1700s. Except for one cherub in the corner and a bit of Faith, the panels have now been recovered and restored. – Artnet
  
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• In Unanimous Vote, National Symphony Musicians Authorize Strike

  24-09-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  “At the core of the dispute is what the union identifies as an unacceptable wage gap between NSO musicians and their peers in orchestras of similar size and stature, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• ‘A memorial to humanity’: Washington DC’s monumental first world war sculpture

  24-09-2024 10:38
  
  The creator of a 60ft-long memorial to the Americans who served in the first world war hopes it serves as a cautionary taleThe creator of a 60ft-long bronze sculpture at the heart of the World War I Memorial in Washington DC is a soldier of peace.“You will not find anyone else who hates war as much as I do,” says the sculptor Sabin Howard, who unveiled his modern masterpiece earlier this month. “The people that are caught in war are innocent bystanders. They are the ones that l
  
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• Turner prize 2024 review – vitality, surprise … and a Ford Escort in a doily

  24-09-2024 10:22
  
  Tate Britain, London
  The nominees bring in bottles of Irn-Bru, gigantic concrete jewellery and blood-red footprints in a show filled with moving cultural collisions and humour
  Jasleen Kaur’s red Ford Escort, standing in the gallery and covered by a giant cotton doily, its sound system blasting out snatches of pop and hip-hop and qawwali devotional song will surely be the laugh-out-loud totemic image of this year’s Turner prize show at Tate Britain. It is but one of several arresting
  
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• ‘The otter came so close I could smell her fishy breath’: scribbles and sketches from Scotland’s wild isles

  24-09-2024 08:00
  
  In an extract from her new book, Still Waters & Wild Waves, the artist and illustrator Angela Harding documents the wildlife and landscapes of the Scottish islands Fair Isle and ShetlandWords and images: Angela Harding Today the UK woke up to a day of excitement. A day of street parties, a national holiday, and celebrations for a new king. It was also day three of gale-force winds on Fair Isle, and it was the day my mother died. A brief phone call from her care home, then the aloneness. The
  
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• Want to be an Arts Consultant? Arts for Social Change? Advocacy? Foundations? Ready to Lead?

  24-09-2024 05:45 via artsjournal.com
  What makes the Master of Arts in Arts Administration program at Goucher different?1. It is designed to meet the needs of busy people. 99.9% of our students are employed full-time while they are in our program.
  2 .Our program is affordable, and 85% of our students receive some form of financial assistance.
  3. We have a diverse group of faculty and students. We all learn best from and with those who have different backgrounds and perspectives.
  4. There are no standardized tests required for admiss
  
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• Silk Roads review – mesmerising show turns world history upside down

  24-09-2024 01:01
  
  British Museum, London
  Following China’s epic ancient trade routes through fabulous oases, desert palaces and burial mounds will radically change the way you feel about bordersNot many exhibitions turn the history of the world upside down. The British Museum’s mesmerising Silk Roads does, by showing how Asia, Europe and north Africa shared their cultures more than a millennium ago. Far from developing in isolation, let alone in a “clash of civilisations”, east and west we
  
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